Seneca Creek

Seneca Creek is a 5.8-mile-long stream in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, roughly 16 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. It drains into the Potomac River.

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Type: Stream
Description: tributary of the Potomac River in Maryland, United States
Also known as: “Senegar Creek” and “Sinegar Creek”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Riley’s Lock and Seneca Quarry.

Riley’s Lock

River

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Riley's Lock and lock house are part of the 184.5-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal that operated from the 1830s through 1923 along the Potomac River in the United States.

Seneca Quarry

Ruins

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Seneca Quarry is a historic site located at Seneca, Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on the north bank of the Potomac River, just west of Seneca Creek.

Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C.

Golf course

Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C. is an 800-acre private golf club in the eastern United States, at Lowes Island in Potomac Falls, Virginia, northwest of Washington, D.C. It is part of the Trump chain of golf clubs that includes clubs in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Bedminster.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Seneca and Lowes Island.

Seneca

Hamlet

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Seneca is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is located near the intersection of River Road and Seneca Creek, not far from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Potomac River.

Lowes Island

Village

Lowes Island is a census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lowes Island had a population of 11,023. Along with nearby Countryside and Cascades, it is considered one of the three main components of the Potomac Falls community. Lowes Island is situated 2 miles southwest of Seneca Creek.

Sugarland Run

Village

Sugarland Run is a planned community and census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 11,799. Sugarland Run is situated 3 miles southwest of Seneca Creek.

Seneca Creek

Category: body of water
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.06844° or 39° 4′ 6″ north

Longitude

-77.34054° or 77° 20′ 26″ west

Elevation

180 feet (55 metres)

Open location code

87F43M95+9Q

GeoNames ID

4369149

Wikidata ID

Q7450289

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Cebuano—“Seneca Creek” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Seneca Creek”
Cebuano: “Seneca Creek (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, Maryland, Montgomery County)”
Cebuano: “Seneca Creek”

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Rushville and Seneca Breaks.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lock 24 and Seneca Creek Aqueduct.

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